After Care Service

This report is the third in a continuing series which aims to provide a regularly updated evaluation of the outcomes of the Jersey Probation and After-Care Service’s work, and its contribution to community safety, crime reduction and the rehabilitation of offenders....

Research on social work in the criminal justice system was well represented in the social work literature until the 1990s. Since then, changes in the organisation, training and research base of probation practice, particularly in England and Wales, have all...

Jersey is an autonomous British jurisdiction with links to the Crown, through its historical connection to Normandy, but not to the government of the United Kingdom. Therefore, there are no formal links or accountabilities for Probation Service work with the United...

ATTENTION TO SPECIFIC practice skills in the training of probation officers in Britain has been inconsistent, variable, and even haphazard. (The following comments apply mainly to England and Wales: Scotland has no separate Probation Service and uses Criminal Justice...

This bulletin describes the research on supervision skills and offender engagement currently being carried out by Swansea University staff in collaboration with the Jersey Probation and After-Care Service. This is one of a number of studies done by Swansea researchers...

Honorary service in Jersey has its origins in a feudal system of social organisation underpinned by the existence of the ‘fief’. The twelve parish structure became established in the 12th century, possibly earlier. Each parish provided a framework for ecclesiastical,...